Rudolf Schütrumpf

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Rudolf Schütrumpf (born September 30, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 27, 1986 in Cologne ) was a German palynologist .

Life

Schütrumpf, son of a train driver, studied botany , chemistry , zoology and geology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and the University of Innsbruck after attending school in his native Frankfurt . As a doctoral student, he worked as a peat geologist and pollen analyst on the excavation of the late Ice Age reindeer hunter camp in Meiendorf near Hamburg (today Hamburg-Rahlstedt ).

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP (membership number 2.275.730) and the SA in 1933 . In 1936, he was charged with a thesis on the history of the marshes and forests of the Lüneburg Heath at Fritz Overbeck Dr. phil. nat. PhD. Then he continued his pollen analysis work in the Hamburg− Ahrensburg area and in the Margraviate of Brandenburg before taking over the management of the research center for the scientific prehistory of the SS Ahnenerbes in April 1938 . In the palynological laboratory of the research facility in Berlin-Dahlem, he processed the samples from the SS excavations carried out by the Ahnenerbe and carried out commissioned investigations for various museums and monument preservation offices. He was called up shortly after the start of the war. In 1940 he became a member of the SS , in which he was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer in 1942 . During the Second World War he worked at the entomological institute in the Dachau concentration camp . According to a note in the documents of the SS Ahnenerbes from October 6, 1944, he also took over the representation of the concentration camp doctor Kurt Plötner .

After his release from captivity, he headed the "Wandering Museum" in Schleswig-Holstein .

In 1958, Schütrumpf set up the laboratory for vegetation history and pollen analysis at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Cologne and was its head for many years. His successor was Jutta Meurers-Balke . In 1966 he became an academic senior counselor , qualified as a professor in 1969 and became an adjunct professor in 1970 . After his retirement in 1974 he was chairman of the German Society for Prehistory and Protohistory for three years .

From 1959 to 1960 Schütrumpf was secretary of the German Quaternary Association , from 1970 to 1977 on its advisory board. Since 1961 he was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Fonts

  • Paleobotanical and pollen analysis of the palaeolithic reindeer hunter site of Meiendorf near Hamburg. Dissertation. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1936.
  • The post-ice age. Moors, forests, animals and culture. Pictures by Gerhardt Kagelmann. Flemming, Hamburg around 1953.
  • The moors of Schleswig-Holstein. With map 1: 500,000 from the German Planning Atlas, volume Schleswig-Holstein. Geological State Office Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 1956.
  • with Alfred Rust : The Young Palaeolothic tent complexes of Ahrensburg. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1958.
  • with Karl Gripp, Hermann Schwabedissen (ed.): Early humanity and the environment.
    • Volume I: Archaeological Contributions. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1970, ISBN 3-412-09471-4 .
    • Volume II: Scientific contributions. Böhlau, Cologne / Graz 1967.
  • with Hans Reichstein: Palynological and mammalian studies on the settlement area Hüde I am Dümmer, district of Diepholz. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1988, ISBN 3-529-01523-7 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 563.
  2. ↑ Tomcat 1974: 82

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personal data
SURNAME Schütrumpf, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German palynologist (pollen analyst)
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1986
Place of death Cologne